A vehicle is located on a digital map, with objects being stored in the digital map in a georeferenced manner. From a set of these objects stored in a georeferenced manner in the digital map, which are currently being detected by the environment sensor, the object most distant from the environment sensor is identified and a current sensor range of the environment sensor is determined on the basis of the distance of the environment sensor from the object.
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2. The method as in claim 1, wherein the distance from the environment detection sensor to this object is established as the current sensor range of the environment detection sensor.
3. The method as in claim 1, wherein for the respective object, object information is determined that at least gives the respective distance from the environment detection sensor to the object at which the object can be detected by the environment detection sensor, for that environment detection sensor under various detection conditions, whereby the object is detected by the environment detection sensor and/or a similar type of environment detection sensor and is combined and evaluated together with the respective existing detection conditions, in particular weather conditions.
4. The method as in claim 1, wherein the detection conditions determined by multiple environment detection sensors on the vehicle and/or detection conditions determined based on multiple objects are compared to each other.
5. The method as in claim 1, wherein using an environment detection sensor configured as an optical sensor comprising an environment detection sensor configured as a Lidar sensor or as an image capturing sensor comprising a video sensor, a current road surface detection range is determined for that environment detection sensor and, using stored road surface conditions and assigned road surface detection ranges, a current road surface condition is determined.
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October 15, 2020
October 1, 2024
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